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The Cambridge History of Rights

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, contemporary authors explored the myriad ways in which the concept of rights could be understood but almost always arrived at the same conclusion: It was vital …

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The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence

The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence offers a wide-ranging and accessible anthology of essays for understanding the Declaration's intellectual and social context, connection to the A…

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Tim Connor, Annie Delaney, Fiona Haines
Global Business and Local Struggle

In the quest for human rights justice for communities and workers whose rights are breached by transnational businesses, non-judicial mechanisms (NJMs) are often deployed, but how effective are they? This…

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Kirsty Hughes, Stevie Martin, Stephanie Palmer
Human Rights Law in the UK

This book offers a rich analysis of many aspects of human rights law in the UK and the European legal framework while also including critiques of human rights and the varying conceptions of rights. This b…

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Uwe Rasch
Aldous Huxley and the Enemies of Freedom

This is the first book to cover the evolution and scope of Aldous Huxley's socio-political ideas in a concise and highly accessible manner, both for political theorists and interested students from variou…

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Dmitri Levitin
The Kingdom of Darkness

This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the proces…

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Daniel O'Keefe
Frivolous Politics

Examines how contemporary populism in the United States is the political expression of an underlying cultural decadence.By scrutinizing both the far left and the far right, and seeing them as sharing the …

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Sofia Diana Gabel
A Woman's Fight

In this blending of historical fact and fiction, 19th century French feminist writer and speaker Maria Deraismes struggles against misogynistic men and the French government during the turbulent 1870s in …

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Florian Stöckel, Sabrina Stöckli, Benjamin A. Lyons
The Power of the Crowd

This Element explores misinformation as a challenge for democracies, using experiments from Germany, Italy, and the UK to assess the role of user-generated corrections on social media. A sample of more th…

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The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence

The Cambridge Companion to the Declaration of Independence offers a wide-ranging and accessible anthology of essays for understanding the Declaration's intellectual and social context, connection to the A…

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Kaarina Kailo
Sauna Culture, Sweat and Spirituality

This book explores spiritual and sacred practices in Finnish saunas and Native North American sweat lodges through a comparative study. It also sheds light on ancient traditions from Ireland and Galicia, …

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Eliza Varney
Disability, Human Rights, and Contract Law

"This book explores the link between contract law and human rights. It questions the compatibility of key principles, doctrines and statutory provisions in English contract law with the values pursue…

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James Q. Whitman
From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands

Today we think of land as the paradigmatic example of property, while in the past, the paradigmatic example was often a slave. In this seminal work, James Q. Whitman asserts that there is no natural form …

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Evangelia Chordaki (Lina)
Making Sense of Knowledge

This Element explores the Greek feminist birth control movement (1974-1986), examining affective epistemologies of antimilima as a form of resistance. It reinterprets women's embodied knowledge, critiques…

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Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad

Economic sanctions have been imposed on dozens of countries and thousands of individuals, triggering humanitarian crises and creating economic chaos, often with little accountability. Sanctions can cause …

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Jörns Bühner
Im Würgegriff der Klima-Agenda

Im Würgegriff der Klima Agenda Was, wenn alles ganz anders ist?Wie Klima-Ideologie zur globalen Machtstrategie wurde und was wir jetzt dringend tun müssen.CO2, Klimakatastrophe, Energiewende, kaum ein The…

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Mathias Bellmann
Radikale Demokratie: Das demokratische Manifest

Die Demokratie ist die beste Lebensversicherung der Menschheit. Unsere Demokratie ist mehr als ein politisches System: Sie ist Freiheit, Gleichheit und Rechtssicherheit. Dieses Buch zeigt, warum wir wiede…

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Sharon R. Krause
Politics of Liberty

Politics of Liberty: Essays on Montesquieu brings together a series of essays that shine new light on the meaning, conditions, and effects of freedom. Montesquieu's work embodies in a wholehearted way the…

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Rethinking Materialism

Taking as its starting point the diagnosis that events such as the pandemic, the ecological crisis, and the increasingly volatile international situation have made our relationship to the world problemati…

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Eric L. Lewis
Leaving Guantanamo

This multilayered work follows a group of Guantanamo detainees from a single Middle Eastern country, Kuwait, portraying their lives before their capture, to their experience at Guantanamo, to their ultima…

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